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Aulacaspis medangena Takagi, 2014 (Diaspididae: Aulacaspis)

Aulacaspis medangena Takagi 2014: 108-109. Type data: MALAYSIA: Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Nanas, on Lindera lucida, 11/19/1991. Holotype, female, Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Countries: 1

Systematics: This species is similar to Aulacaspis scaphocalycis expecially in the pygidial margin. A. medangena differs from A. scaphocalycis in the prosomatic tubercles in having submedian macroducts on the first abdominal segment and submarginal macroducts on teh second, in lacking distinct peribuccal scleroses, and other details. (Takagi, 2014(
Structure: Body of fully grown adult female robust, prosoma about 1.5 times as wide as long, roundish, prosomatic tubercles suggested by slight prominences; body gradually tapering from prosoma to pygidium in rough outline. Median trullae sunken into apex of pygidium, divergent, elongate, with mesal margins curved and serrate; basally appearing united together, with a pair of small sclerites confluent with a pair of sclerotized lines on the ventral surface of the pygidium. (Takagi, 2014)
Biology: Female and male tests occurring on the leaves, females on both surfaces and males on the lower surface; female teste thick, somewhat convex dorsally. (Takagi, 2014)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2014.

Takagi2014: description, distribution, host, illustration, structure, taxonomy, 108-109, 145